2023: ‘Bad year’ for the sugar industry
By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN
FOR THE sugar industry, 2023 is a “bad year”.
Such will end (a day from now) with plummeted millgate prices of sugar...
Not a ‘bad dream’ after all
By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN
THE “FINAL MARRIAGE” between Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) and Enrique Razon-led Negros Electric and Power Corporation (NEPC) is heading for...
‘Slit & split’
By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN
TWO THINGS are brewing in Bacolod City constituting the so-called political “slit and split” scenarios.
Many are “amused” but consider such as...
‘Paying through the nose’
ON DECEMBER 20, the city government of Bacolod will be turning over 288 housing units/cubicles to its first batch of beneficiaries under President Bongbong...
‘Crack, crick, crock’
BACOLOD CITY’s Mayor Albee Benitez is experiencing the so-called “crack, crick, crock” due to the three major issues plaguing his administration.
His endorsement of Punong...
When ‘failure’ is OK
By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN
FOR SURE, the late Negros Occidental governor Alfredo Marañon Jr., popularly known by his moniker “02”, must be smiling from heaven...
‘As happy as Larry’
By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN
FIRST of all, allow me to use the idiom “as happy as Larry” for this particular column. Such means “with so...
‘Mission’ on a Canvas
By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN
FOR THE first time, I had the privilege of being invited to an inter-school art contest hosted by the Lucio Tan-led...
‘Sweetest victory’ for Ella & Pempoy
CALL it Christmas in November.
It’s the Nov. 24, 2023, 13-page decision of Bacolod City Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Edgar Tupas acquitting Moises Padilla,...
‘Unseen forces’ vs NIR; DELAY or second death?
BY ERWIN AMBO DELILAN
Such is the 64-dollar-question re: proposed revival of the controversial Negros Island Region (NIR).
Why?
Because it seems there are “unseen forces” working...